Showtime Traits and Lifetime Wishes

New Traits

We've arrived at a new, clean instance of Starlight Shores, and it's time to create a family. Now, we already have a subsection of the guide for Creating Sims, so we won't get into too many details here until the end.

So starting with the Ambitions expansion pack, we've been following several generations of the Carwin family. A cousin in far away Starlight Shores has always loved to sing and wants to be an international star! Ladies and gentlemen, meet Lanette Carwin!

Lanette, in addition to looking smoking hot, has strategically selected her traits. As always, you can play and succeed with any combination of traits, but certain combinations make it easier than others. Regardless of your chosen career, friendliness and socialization will play a large part in success. As such, any positive traits for socialization, such as Friendly or Charismatic (or both), are extremely useful.

There are two new traits for this expansion. One is called Social Butterfly, which gives a buff when a Sim is having a conversation with others, especially if she's the center of attention, such as the one telling a story in a conversation, or the one leading a group interaction. She'll get a debuff if she goes too long unnoticed, but the trade-off is that the Soical Meter will rise (and fall) faster than normal. It's pretty well balanced and favors Sims who socialize a lot, making it especially useful for families.

Lanette isn't taking that one, but she is taking the other new trait, Natural Born Performer. This gives her a buff whenever she's performing onstage, increasing her tips and job experience. With no downside, it's fantastic if you're aiming to be a star.

Lanette's other traits are centered around being friendly and intelligent. Strangely, there are no traits specific to the professions, unlike the traits introduced in Ambitions. That is, no trait will give you a specific boost to the singer, magician, or acrobat career track. Acrobat is physical job and having the Athletic trait helps, but doesn't give a direct boost.

The Star Quality trait is also unnecessary for the new jobs strictly speaking, but pairing Star Quality with Natural Born Performer will give you a great advantage when attmepting to be a celebrity. Lanette takes both, as well as Charismatic, plus Unlucky and Neat to round herself out.

New Lifetime Wishes

Now it's time to check out Lanette's lifetime wish. The mere fact she has the Natural Born Performertrait gives her reommendations for the new careers, but as always, you can manually select your ambition regardless of your traits even if they conflict.

The three new lifetime wishes, conversely to the new traits, are specific to the new professions. You'll have Vocal Legend, which tasks you to get to Level 10 of the singer career; Master Acrobat, which has you seek Level 10 of the acrobat career; and Master Magician, which gives you the goal of (surprise!) getting to Level 10 of the magician career.

Those are the only new lifetime wishes. Given that you can't be in multiple careers at once, and given that none of the new careers have any associated skills, it stands to reason that these wishes are sufficient.

Back to Lanette. By default, Vocal Legend is among her recommended wishes, so that's the one we pick. After finishing off her favorites, her voice, and biography, we're ready to move into Starlight Shores!